EGYPT 1895 SG. Mint "Nile Winter Fete" set of three, prepared for use but never issued, marginal u/m

Stock Code: P223014607

1895 (Nov) "Nile Winter Fete" set of three, comprising 3m orange, 5m carmine and 1pi blue in the evocative "Cleopatra and Nile boat" design, perf 14 on wmkd paper, all marginal examples, brilliant unmounted o.g. A beautiful and seldom seen set, prepared for use but sadly never issued, surviving only from the file sheets long preserved in the De La Rue archives and sold in the 1970s. It provides a glimpse of how different the philatelic history of Egypt might have been, in contrast to the unchanging "Sphinx and Pyramid" design that was in use from 1867 to 1914. [See note in Part I, before SG 73/82.]

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EGYPT 1895 SG. Mint "Nile Winter Fete" set of three, prepared for use but never issued, marginal u/m - $746.34*

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